| 2000 | John Milford, actor, dies at 70 |
| 1999 | Pee Wee Reese, American Athlete |
| 1996 | Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol), dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Sergiu Celibidache, conductor, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Patrick Meehan, petty Criminal, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Tom Greenshields, sculptor, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Francis Mankiewicz, Canad director (Lesson bons debarras), dies at 49 |
| 1992 | Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104 |
| 1992 | Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies |
| 1992 | John J Sirica, U.S., judge (Watergate), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Marion P Ames, U.S., advocate/activist, dies |
| 1992 | Tony Williams, U.S., singer (Platters-Great Pretender), dies at 64 |
| 1991 | Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61 |
| 1988 | Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90 |
| 1985 | Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86 |
| 1984 | John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89 |
| 1984 | Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1984 | Tigran Petroshan, Russian chess grand master, dies at 55 |
| 1984 | J. B. Priestley, British Writer |
| 1982 | Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58 |
| 1981 | Karl Bohm, Austria conductor, dies at 86 |
| 1980 | Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider |
| 1978 | Nicolas Bentley, British Author |
| 1976 | Werner Braunig, writer, dies |
| 1975 | Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87 |
| 1972 | Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 |
| 1972 | Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65 |
| 1972 | Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66 |
| 1971 | Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59 |
| 1970 | Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1969 | Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88 |
| 1969 | Sigrid Gurie, actor (3 Faces West, Algiers), dies at 58 |
| 1969 | Leonard Woolf, British Author |
| 1966 | S J "Tip" Snooke, South Africa cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies |
| 1965 | Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and writer (Walk at Dawn), dies |
| 1963 | Clifford Odets, U.S. playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57 |
| 1961 | Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68 |
| 1961 | Guido Alberto Fano, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1961 | Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies |
| 1961 | Learned Hand, American Judge |
| 1958 | Big Bill Broonzy, rocker, dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1958 | Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies |
| 1958 | Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46 |
| 1958 | Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82 |
| 1956 | Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58 |
| 1956 | Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German Foreign Minister (1932-38), dies |
| 1956 | Bertolt Brecht, German Poet |
| 1955 | Fiske Kimball, U.S. architect/art historian, dies at 66 |
| 1951 | William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills |
| 1949 | Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death |
| 1949 | Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death |
| 1946 | Susan St. James, Susan Jane Miller, Los Angeles California, actress (Kate and Allie) |
| 1941 | Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London |
| 1941 | Milhaly Babits, Hungarians literary (Golyakalifa), dies at 57 |
| 1938 | Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies at 65 |
| 1937 | Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48 |
| 1936 | Rainey Bethea, hanged, last U.S. public execution |
| 1932 | Rin Tin Tin, U.S. Hollywood-dog, dies |
| 1928 | Klabund, Alfred Henschke, German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37 |
| 1923 | Jacob T Cremer, President (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76 |
| 1922 | Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies |
| 1922 | Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher |
| 1905 | Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies |
| 1887 | Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies |
| 1884 | Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46 |
| 1870 | David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies |
| 1867 | Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1863 | Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 |
| 1858 | George Combe, phrenologist, dies |
| 1856 | William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies |
| 1844 | Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies |
| 1841 | Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General Padagogik), dies at 65 |
| 1834 | Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1833 | Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies |
| 1794 | George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies |
| 1788 | Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies |
| 1785 | John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies |
| 1778 | Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies |
| 1763 | Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1727 | William Croft, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1652 | Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60 |
| 1587 | Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1433 | Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76 |
| 1167 | Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies |
